Iranian women fined $260 for ‘bad hijabs’
Tehran: A Tehran court has fined two women $260 for violating the Islamic dress code by not wearing their mandatory hijabs (headscarves) properly in the street, a judicial official was quoted today as saying. “In recent days several cases have been filed in the court for bad hijabs and, in two of them, the accused were sentenced to pay 9 million rials ($260) in cash,” reformist daily Arman quoted the official as saying. When in public, all women in Iran, even foreigners, are required to wear the loose scarf, which covers the hair and neck.
Taliban suicide car bombing kills four
Kabul: A Taliban suicide car bomber killed four people on Wednesday and injured dozens more on the outskirts of the Afghan capital Kabul, police said. A total of 41 people, most of them civilians, were injured when the bomber targeted the local district administration compound in the town of Paghman, said a police spokesman, Ebadullah Karimi.
Pak-US experts discuss non-proliferation
Islamabad: Strategic export control experts from Pakistan and the US on Wednesday discussed the best practices to maintain strict control over non-proliferation of nuclear materials. Pakistan apprised the US side of the latest developments in the
country’s strategic export control system, its internal compliance
mechanism and the National Control lists (NCl)’s review process, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
World urged to make clean energy cheaper
london: Top environmental advocates on Wednesday urged the international community to increase and coordinate investments in research and development for renewable energy to make it cheaper than coal within 10 years.
New UNGA chief to work on Security reforms
United Nations: The landmark 70th session of the UN General Assembly commenced, with its new president assuring that he would continue the work of his predecessor on Security Council reforms, just a day after the adoption of a “historic” negotiating text on the long-pending process.